Penguin Canada: 177 books
Fight to the Finish
Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book Award
The magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**
Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World...
The Lost Dream
Story Of Mike Danton David Frost And A Broken Canadian Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Mike Jefferson started out as a suburban kid who dreamed of making it to the NHL, with parents determined to do anything and everything to make their son’s dream come true. So how did this promising young man’s hockey career turn into a harrowing crime story played out in sensational news reports?
Coach...
The Last Good Year
Seven Games That Ended an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
We may never see a playoff series like it again.
Before Gary Bettman, and the lockouts. Before all the NHL's old barns were torn down to make way for bigger, glitzier rinks. Before expansion and parity across the league, just about anything could happen on the ice. And it often did. It was...
Better Now
Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy...
Turning
A Year in the Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors
“Jessica J. Lee is a writer of rare and exhilarating grace. In Turning, she sounds the depths of lakes and her own life, never flinching from darkness, surfacing to fresh understandings of her place in the welter of natural...
The Guy on the Left
Sports Stories from the Best Seat in the House
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
If you’re a sports fan, you know James Duthie.
The biggest games, the biggest trades, the juiciest rumours—chances are Duthie is the guy you tuned in to hear talk about them. There are other experts and insiders, stats guys and analysts, but no one else who can talk about sports with the humour,...
Out of the Rough
Inside the Ropes with the World's Greatest Golfers
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
With 150 wins to his name, Steve Williams is one of the most successful caddies of the modern era. From his modest start in freelancing his way around the world’s golf courses, he became a man in demand, working with some of the golfing world’s best. Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd, Terry Gale,...
by L. M. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death—usually not the first terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. But in The Blythes Are Quoted, completed shortly before her death and never before published in its entirety, Montgomery brought these topics to...
by Tanya Tagaq
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for...
Love Lives Here
A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were...
Quinn
The Life of a Hockey Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE
A tribute to the larger than life story of a hockey icon and hero.**
The hockey world mourned when Pat Quinn died in November 2014.
Tough guys sobbed. Networks carried montages of Quinn's rugged hits, his steely-eyed glare, and his...
Run, Hide, Repeat
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award
Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage...
Journeyman
The Many Triumphs (and Even More Defeats) Of A Guy Who's Seen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Every young hockey player dreams of one day playing in the NHL, of skating on a line with his hero and drinking champagne in the dressing room after winning the Stanley Cup. But kids should watch what they wish for. They may make it to the pros, like Sean Pronger, only to end up playing for sixteen...
by Randy Bachman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Randy Bachman has been rolling out chart-topping songs his whole life—“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” “These Eyes,” “American Woman,” “Taking Care of Business”—and, since 2005, treating fans to a lifetime of stories on his hit CBC Radio show Randy’s Vinyl Tap.
His approach...